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Yes, I get that some people will say "they should've never gotten fat to begin with" or that "normal weight people don't get praise for not getting fat" and all that jazz. The thing is, it's EXTREMELY F*CKIN HARD TO LOSE WEIGHT.

Despite what some armchair nutritionists may think, it's not just simple math of starving yourself at a caloric defecit and eating next to nothing for a month or more until the pounds shed off. Actual experts will tell you starving yourself doesn't work, and that weight gain isn't as simple as gluttony. There's a ton of factors that contribute to weight gain, with one of the biggest ones being mental and stress. This may be an assumption on my end, but most overweight people don't seem very happy. (I sure wasn't, my entire life.) Stress is a heavy contributor to weight gain, even if you avoid fast food and have a pretty vanilla plain diet.

So while I'm not saying it's "heroic" to lose weight, I don't see what the point is on sh*tting on people trying to turn their life around. Same with people coming off drug addiction, or other problems in life. If people are going to be assholes to them regardless, why even bother to improve themselves along the way?

So I ask, do people who lose a lot of weight or otherwise improve their bodies deserve kudos and respect for turning their life around?

This one is going to be controversial, I'm sure.

What my generation likes to rightfully crap on boomers for:

The great generation that put in place and sacrificed hard for all the fantastic benefits boomers benefited from starting out in their careers - somewhere along the way, once boomers started getting wealthier, instead of sacrificing (and still living good) like their parents did for them, they reversed all of those great policies and regulations and fucked all the young people over financially so they could live like kings. Shame.

What my generation often forgets to mention about themselves when discussing with boomers:

Is about the fact that we have had the most privileged childhood upbringing of any generation in history, ever. With the invention on internet, netflix, giant flat screens in every room, food is cheaper than ever before. Most of us even on a shoe string budget can have access to all of the basic necessities that make life happy, joyful and amazing. Most boomers never had access to ANY of those privileges. Shame on Us.

My final thoughts:

As an Boomer in your community -- do the right thing, put yourself in place of a young person and vote in policies that support the growth of a middle class lifestyle for as many people in your community (including yourself) as possible, even if that means making some sacrifices of things you never should have had in the first place so that no one has to spend endless nights out in the cold our in their cars starving while you boomers are living a life of luxury just around the corner from lack of business regulation. That is seriously fucked up.

And as a young person in your community -- understand that you are still young, dumb, have a ton to learn about life from boomers, and actually do have it extremely well off relative to ALL of the generations before you thanks to all the tremendous hard work of the boomers for working in their respective fields and advancing society forward so much for our own benefit! To all the boomers, thank you.